Important additional facts on the Tippit shooting

A really good, thought provoking book on the JFK assassination , especially the J D Tippit shooting chapter. I brought this book some years ago. sent off to the USA for it. It cost a few quid, but worth it!

The "Tippet scene" is very close to Jack Ruby's apartment. Something I learned on a personalized tour with a grand nephew of the Dealey of DMSun publisher fame. The plaza was overlooked by his newspaper office.

It was a coup! We will never be the same country--it was a coup!

Excellent Video. I think America needs to know the truth. It is time for the government to release ALL the information.

LBJ would not in a million years have accepted the vice presidency position if it wasn't going to lead to the big job. When he was given that position in 1961 Kennedy's days were numbered. Many organizations benefited from Kennedy being taken out. LBJ, mafia, CIA, FBI, Texan oiil barons, contracts for Vietnam (particularly Texan companies), Federal Banks, it just seemed the policies of Kennedy ruffled far too many feathers. The moment LBJ was sworn in all those issues with all those organisations disappeared overnight. RFK was probably taken out by the same people as the Kennedy clan were never going to get into the whitehouse again as the establishment knew they would immediately look into his brothers assassination.

I loved McBride’s book when it first was published. Thank you, Vince, for being enterprising in how you continually sharpen what has been a bewildering story since November 22, 1963.

Thanks for giving more details about Tippit. Good man Vince.

A friend of mine who's family was part of the Fort Worth and Dallas criminal elite on his father's side and also prominent business owners and attorneys on his mother's side. He told me at his uncles south Texas ranch was a meeting room at the auction barn that had been used to plan out parts of the assassination. When I asked if there was like a plaque that stated that as fact he laughed and said no but there was a strong evidence in photos between his uncle and Jack Ruby and many DPD officers.

I couldn't pull myself away from this riveting interview. I tip my hat to you Mr McBride.

For many many years I thought there was more to it to Tippit's murder, and up until recently was just swept under the rug.

The official story would have us believe that Oswald fired four rounds from a six shot revolver, emptied the cylinder, then separated the four spent casings from the two remaining live rounds and discarded only the casings. Preposterous. And as much as I’ve looked, I’ve never found the information that would been included in the arrest report concerning the condition of the revolver (whether loaded and with how many rounds) or whether any additional rounds were found in his pockets. How convenient.

Thank you to our host and author Joseph McBride for this important segment. Learned a lot. It appears that once J Edgar put out the word “lone gunman,” LHO. the Warren Commission, Dallas P D, et al, followed the script. Even the “altered” Zapruder footage confirms shots from the rear.

Anyone that went to Vietnam had their life changed because of the JFK assassination.

I am going to add this book to my collection! Excellent work. Cheers!

One thing I have never heard mentioned in any interview, is why did the presidents vehicle travel so slowly on Elm Street? When the shots ran out the vehicle slowed, and at the time of the head-shot was almost stopped. With gun-shots running out most drivers would accelerate away. Very strange how that driver slowed down.

Well that was a brilliant and fascinating interview. I'll try and buy the book. Thanks.

"Democracy died on that day" 😔

There was a police officer who reported himself "out for 5" on Jefferson at just about the exact time of Tippit's murder. I have mentioned this before but nobody seems to understand the significance of this. It was car 56 or 58, I am not going to go through the transcript right now. If you have it, look for the car out for 5 at about the time of Tippit's murder. That cop was later promoted to homicide.

I disagree that the DPD was too "lazy" to investigate. I believe the "Feds" would have told the chief of the DPD "the case is closed, Oswald did it, don't make any waves that might possibly embarrass the department (hint hint Tippitt may heve been involved).

The owner of the school book repository, Mr D.H. Byrd.... I've heard from other researchers that his brother was U.S. Navy Admiral Byrd. That tidbit of info and 2 bucks will get you a cup of coffee, but I always thought it was kinda interesting. This is a great interview, thank you.

Another possible piece to the Tippet killing may be that according Oswald's landlady, a police patrol car stopped before her rooming house, tooted its horn twice, and then left. This occurred around 1 PM in the 5 minute period when Oswald had returned there before heading out. Who were the officers in that police cruiser and were they connected to either Oswald or Tippet, and if so, what was their role?

I've always found it interesting that the book, "Farewell America", was kept out of the U.S. until the 80's. The author, James Hepburn, is widely considered a pseudonym for the various intelligence agencies (outside of the U.S.) that felt the official story was false. Though the book is believed to have originated with the French, the heavy lifting of that investigation was done by the then, K.G.B. That particular agency had already penetrated the Manhattan Project, which at the time, was no small feat. They were understandably concerned that they were being made out as the scapegoat. Any incoming U.S. President is shown the same "evidence" to this day: Oswald was a defector. He was turned by the Soviets and Cuba, and The Warren Commision had to cover that up, and did. It seems as though Kennedy would've been much better protected by his adversaries.

Take one aspect and investigate the hell out of it. EXCELLENT strategy.

Great information. Need more on Tippet. Great interview.

Dear GOD... help us all I pray even today.

I havent seen any real compelling evidence that Dallas P.D. was involved much-less knew in advance my friend but other than that, I appreciate your methods and "mission statement" (so to speak) and truly dig your approach of sniping or at least narrowing your scope of work in order to scrutinize one or more particular aspects of investigation and research. It resonates with the way I have researched this topic over the past 50 years . Best Sincere Regards!

....these are very fair observations and you raise questions that have been hanging for far too long. Having followed this my whole life....the broad web of governmental, institutional, criminal, political, global involvement ...agreed to involvement in the JFK assignation is obscene. When the American public accepts a "no answer" for why a sitting president was executed, ...almost 60 years ago? Still no clear answer?...well, we lost our country at that point.

Tippet was involved with the assination. He stopped by the music store to make phone calls.

I cried when I heard mrs. tippit cry over her husbands horrible death in 1963...She was interviewed by a local television crew in Oak Cliff after it had happened...

Penn Jones was a friend. He was great, helped me as a student for my presentations with great materials. I'm forever grateful 🙏

The USG, any government entity at any level in this country, is not to be believed about nearly everything unless you can get clear and convincing corroboration from an independent source, if such thing exists. Goverments routinely and unabashedly (greater good rationale) lie by nature for survival.

There is LHO who was thin that we saw shot at DPD. There was a stockier Lee seen at the Carousel club and the Texas theatre. There was a LHO who looked like neither of those 2 at the embassy in Mexico. There was Michael Paine, husband of Ruth who worked at Bell helicopter ( did very well with war) and starting in the 1950s J Edgar Hoover had a LEE HARVEY OSWALD PROJECT!! Doubles for missions. I believe 2 of them were in the USMC, taught Russian and became low level agents.

Vince, I don't know if you already have this audio/video or not, but I thought you might be interested if you haven't. It is from the KZfaq channel, "CPL RADIO" , subtitled "The Off-Ramp with Bob Smith- JFK Dallas Police Call". It's from December 3rd, 2019. It may provide something new on the JFK assassination timeline of Lee Oswald's arrest. Thanks!

I couldn’t figure out why Oswald got out of Dallas clean then doubled back. Turns out the Texas movie theater was 3 blocks from Jack Ruby’s apartment. I was shocked to discover that.

Very informative video. I like it when an aspect of the assassination which hasn't been investigated thoroughly is flushed out more thoroughly by a researcher. I had read already elsewhere that every witness who could place Oswald at the scene of the Tippit murder happened to be an acquaintance of Ruby, whereas every witness who couldn't place Oswald there, happened to not be acquainted with Ruby.

Thank you for what you have done. You are a true patriot looking to tell the truth! We still face lies because the evidence ever has been told after 50 years, as promised. Best regards!

The widow of Tippit is said to have told the story that another officer visited her after her husband's death, and that he had said both he and Tippit were detailed to search for Oswald. This should have been challenged by the contributer. It is quite possible that when the other officer visited Mrs Tippit, Oswald's name was known by almost everyone. What needed to be ascertained is whether the 2 officers were detailed for a suspect by name or by description. It would seem quite natural, where 2 people knew Oswald as the suspect the second officer used his name to Mrs Tippit, probably because she knew his name by that time.

If Tippet was supposed to “hunt LHO down”, you would think we would have his weapon at the ready to shoot either when he was at the car window or as he departed the car.

18:08 Before cell phones, if a police officer was not near a police call box, and dispatch wanted to give him information that could not be broadcast on the radio, I think he may have been instructed to call in on a public phone.

Kerry Thornley and David Ferrie shot Tippit while Westbrook and Croy watched from the alley. How in 60 years no one else has figured this out is mind boggling.

Senator Yarborough, in the second car, donated blood to me when I was a new born, saved my life. I have A negative blood, rare

Tippit was eliminated by Gary Marlow , Ruby drove Marlow to Oawald rooming house to eliminate Oswald, Tippit saw Marlow and recognised him and stopped him to talk , Marlow got spooked as he was in a fifo mission and could not be recognised by anyone so he Eliminated Tippit so they could still get to Oswald at the Theatre but it was too late as the Police got there first. Marlow had to leave town fast so it left Ruby to get rid of Oswald.

4 to the chest and 1 to the head isn't a random shooting. It's an execution. So this wasn't some chance encounter, it was by design. Many others who may have been involved were subsequently found dead, all part of silencing participants and witnesses. Tippitt knew something which meant he had to be silenced.

the massive cover up is what amazes me the complete and utter corruption of it all makes me understand why we're where we are now corruption in plain site

"The shell at the scene indicates that the suspect is armed with an automatic .38 rather than a pistol. " - DPD Sgt. Gerald Hill's police radio dispatch from the Tippit scene. (CE 1974, p.78)

Gr8 Research and Analysis from Joseph, eh Vince😊👍

Interesting video, but the question that he was shot in the head, there was a theory that he was often thought to look like JFK,and that they needed an intact brain with a single bullet that they could swap out either Kennedys. . Kennedys brain was damaged and had fragments from a soft bullet fired from the front, instead of the full meta jacket entering from the back they wanted to tie Oswsld to after the second autopsy. The doctors in Dallas indicated the brain was filled with fragments from a bullet that hit him in thr temple. Yet to claim it was fired from the back would require a brain that could be swapped out on the flight.

Thanks for your INPUT- & research! Someone HAD to drive these shooters - Also - The “BUMS” caught in the rail yard w/ new shoes 👞 Who were THEY ?!? HRrelson ? E. Howard Hunt ? Files ?

Almost finished with the book - big book, lots of reading but packed with lots of good information. Probably the most comprehensive resource on J.D. Tippit and the events of that fateful day.

I wonder about the possibility that Tippit may have been killed by Gary Marlow who knew him from the past but did not want his presence in Dallas known, as James Files states. It may also have been Tippit's job to kill Oswald. (Hence his displays of high anxiety that afternoon and being out of his expected work area). In any case, he was not shot by Oswald. Great video.

Ironically, I was just watching his C-Span interview over George Bush's early CIA exploits. McBride's work is thorough and compelling.

The meeting place must have been the gas station where Tippit was waiting, after nobody showed up he started driving various places in a panic. Then he ends up at the record shop to call somebody about what happen. We don’t know how he ends up at 10th and Patton but people in that neighborhood knew him and that’s where the trap was set. Tippit either knew something about the assassination and had to be eliminated or he was selected as a patsy in advance to pin him murder on Oswald.

This was very fascinating. Ordered the book today. Hearing that some of the eyewitnesses had Ruby connections is very interesting.

Never heard that Calloway part before. That little scenario gets deeper every time one turns around

As some researcher stated, (maybe him) "The Tippett murder is the Rosetta Stone of the JFK assassination."

No mention of the body double for the autopsy.

Your on FIRE TODAY Vince! Good Shit buddy where can I donate money???

I remember the witnesses initially said Tippits killer wasn't Oswald, but a week later they claimed it was. A man at a car lot also said the man who walked thru the dealership wasn't Oswald. Ballistics on the gun couldn't confirm it was Oswald's .38. The rifling were too worn down to get a match. That was around 2008.

I noticed a skeletal defect on Tippit's wrist in a photo. Maybe it's nothing, but the LHO backyard photo shows a similar wrist defect.

I read Joseph McBride book "Into the nightmare" he is talking about here. Excellent and much recommended book that I agree with. Thanks for the upload.

Very factual!! more people need to hear this! 60 years.. Time for the truth… Please ask your friends /connections to listen to this. 😮

4 shots. Three in torso and one in temple. Last one was probably the head shot. That spells a hit. Shot in temple to make sure he was dead. Tippit was a Kennedy lookalike. Used his body to replace JFK somehow.

Isn't it cool how the media NEVER EVER used Tippit's full name? Jefferson Davis Tippit? Gee, I wonder why??

Here's one to consider: Could've Tippit been "Badge Man", the shooter photographed from the "Grassy Knoll", at the moment of "the head shot"? From what I remember, that photo was taken by Mary Ann Moorman at the moment of the head shot to JFK, as the bullet blew past spectator Gordon Arnold standing on the embankment.

James Files told us whom shot Officer Tippet. He said in his prison interview that he personally knew the man and as of that date was still alive as far as James Files knew, so he could not give his name. This man showed up at James Files hotel room after the assassination saying he had to kill a policeman and would James Files get rid of his weapon he used to shoot tippet with. James Files went on to say that he knew this man as a friend and he attended his wedding. That he was a shooter for the CIA and had supposed to be hunting down Oswald and was walking back from Oswalds rooming house or where Oswald wife had been living. He told files he was supposed to hit Oswald, but wasnt at his house when he went by looking for him and was walking back to his car around the corner when Tippet stopped him in his car. I googled some of James Files colleages that were mentioned in some other videos and then cross referenced their names and one came back as a CIA operative and possible Mobster/Hit man

Have the Tippit bullets been compared to Rubys gun that shot Oswald?

I suspect that Ruby agreed to remove Oswald because Ruby was involved in the Tippit incident. Given a choice between being charged with the M of a cop and the M of an assassin, the latter would have been more preferable.

33:28 - They could have had a "rendezvous". Oswald apparently asked the cab driver to take him to the 500 block on North Beckley. If Oswald had been set up, he might have realized that the "rendezvous" near Jack Ruby's apartment was a "setup", where he would be killed. As he didn't have his handgun with him, he could have decided he needed it at the "rendezvous". If Tippit was his designated driver, Oswald could easily have called Ruby from the Greyhound Station to tell him he was getting a cab to arrive in 15 minutes. That would also explain why Oswald "gallantly" let a woman take the first cab at the rank. If Oswald didn't arrive at the "rendezvous" point on time, Tippit might have driven towards Oswald's rooming house to intercept him. Ruby could have been at the scene, which would explain why the "botched" killing of Oswald left him no option but to shoot Oswald himself.

The earliest eyewitness statements seem to be more reliable not only because of short time distance but also because it would be less tainted by other reports and national grand-standing and book-writing compensation remote.

I think Tippett was the uniformed officer behind the fence. He knew who the 2nd shooter was, he knew who drove the rambler. He was a liability.

Maybe there were two Oswald's, the real Oswald and the Patsy. It could probably explain why he was seen at both locations.

If Ruby was at Parkland hospital, I highly doubt he shot Tippit.

A great book and a great man!

That was very interesting, thank you

Rich mans trick is really good!

Always facinated by the JFK shooting as it happened when I was a mere infant at the time , it would be great to see it all laid out as it happened back then , great vid.

My Aunt lived right down the street from where Tippitt was killed, and said her neighbor told a local Dallas radio station that there was a police car, other than Tippitt's at the scene when the gun shots were heard. My Aunt said a few months after her neighbor talked to the radio station, she "disappeared" Scary😮

According to another witness who worked at Austin's BBQ, Tippit was expected to meet with another officer (Owen Martin) for lunch at about 12:30 pm. The witness said that Martin said that Tippit had radio in his launch break. The witness also said that Tippit, Oswald, and Ruby knew each other and were seen talking to each other by themselves at said restaurant months before the assassination.

Mrs Tippit says that the DPD told her over the phone that JD had been killed.That due to the circumstances ,they broke protocol and told her when she called.

Frankly, I think many psychiatrists are much more bizarre than their patients. Seeing things every other person sees in a Rorschach test for me is not a proof someone is disturbed or dangerous, it could just be someone with a more frivolous or creative mind, someone thinking out of the box. Psychiatry is a lot of expensive words but for large parts pseudo scientific, with faaaaaaaaaaaar too much room to make errors in judgement. In many law suits in court, psychiatrist B will say the complete opposite of what his or her colleague A said, with as much assurance. Shows you it's still a lot of guess work to which all too often too much importance is given, simply because the exposé uses lots of fancy words.

McBride spent 30 years writing the book. He admitted John Armstrong haD proven there were two Oswald's and more. Armstrong's work is the key to understanding all of this. Go back to the late 1940s and two boys with the same name, Lee Harvey Oswald. Legendary researcher Jack White told me to put my money on John Armstrong. This was in the 90s. Jack's passing was in 2012 I believe.

FASCINATING! How do I share this to my KZfaq page?

If you find flaws in just one aspect of the assassination then the rest will fall like a house of cards

What if............Tippitt was supposed to take Oswald out? Could account for erratic movements looking for him, the frantic phone call (maybe trying to find out where he was as he did not turn up as expected), and the search of the other car? So - in that scenario Tippitt failed....now he had to be taken out as a he could talk (and maybe he was being followed to make sure he did the job) - and subsequently met his fate. A quickly arranged plan B, and Ruby got Oswald. I also think Tippit would have gone one way or the other, even if he did get Oswald......

Where was Tippit at the time of JFK's murder? If Tippit was one of the shooters, (being a good marksman), then Tippit was killed to shut him up. Why else would Tippit have to be eliminated?

Too bad the HSCA didn't do original research by interviewing members of the Dallas police department including those not interviewed by the Warren Commission.

Great interview and research.

A small question that I've had always had is, how did Ruby know when/that Oswald was being moved? How did he know to be there at that time?

C.I.A. starts with them Ends with them. Criminals from top to the bottom 😠😡🤬

Austin’s BBQ served great food. Ate there many, many times from mid60’s (my childhood) thru early 80’s. Went by there years later, no longer there. Never knew there was a connection.

Very interesting..I want to read the book

In a video I heard tippits wife say that he came home for lunch that day. She said that he did not usually come home for lunch but that day he did. How do you think this plays into the story?

They showed Oswald the photo and he said it was a fake and he could prove. The rest is history.

it is important to discuss motive... very important!

From the perspective of over 50 years it's hard for many of us to fully grasp the culture that existed in America during the postwar years. The US and the Soviets were in a constant state of tension. The so-called rightwing groups referenced in this video were a lot more mainstream than folks today can imagine. George Wallace is remembered as being a bigot, but his candidacy in 1968 was enough to flip the White House win to Nixon. Wallace wasn't just popular in the south.

He needs to interview Judyth Vary Baker, Oswald's mistress in New Orleans and James Files. Files identifies the Tippet killer and Ms. Baker can verify that LHO did indeed know Jack Ruby.

It's quite likely that JD Tippet is buried in Arlington Cemetery.

Great interview.

I think this is what really happened Tippit was "Badgeman" in the Mary Moorman photo. Because right after the shooting, Velma came forward in 2006 & told a radio talk show host she saw a man with a high powered rifle exit the back of the TSBD. (Sounds like Malcolm Wallace) she said Tippit was there & she saw Tippit telling him to move his car in the parking lot in back. If you notice in the Mary Moorman photo "Badgeman" looked like a policeman so it was easy for Tippit to pull it off because he was a policeman. It had to be a shooter that could easily get away with it & also Tippit was a crackshot. Who would ever suspect a policeman to shoot JFK ?? Nobody. After the shooting Tippit leaves dealey plaza & drives to an area not his normal beat & was at Gloco Gas station by the trinity river & goes to Top 10 Records to use the phone he was acting very strange & he was looking for Oswald to drive him to Redbird Airfield. Tippit arrived at Gloco gas station from 12:45pm to 1pm so Tippit had plenty of time after leaving dealey plaza. And the 2 cops Earlene Roberts saw before LHO left the rooming house, I think it was Captain Westbrook & officer Kenneth Croy they came to pick up Oswald to drive him to the cinema at 1:07pm. Then Westbrook & Croy drove to the crime scene & enroute the 2nd Oswald Rodger Craig saw get into a Rambler on Elm got in the 2nd patrol car. Virginia Davis saw several policeman after the Tippit shooting & Doris Holan saw a 2nd patrol car hidden in the alley by Tippit's car. Tippit got out & walked towards the 2nd patrol car & a shooter got out & shot him. The 2nd Oswald ?? Westbrook & Croy were in the 2nd patrol car. He was the one seen by witnesses & Johnny Brewer & after the police swarmed in Johnny Brewer fingered the real Oswald by mistake. Butch Burroughs saw the arrest of "Harvey & Lee" the patsy LHO was led out the front entrance & the 2nd LHO was led out the back exit seen by Bernard J.Haire of Bernie's Hobby House. The 2nd Oswald was escorted by 2 policemen & I bet it was Westbrook & Croy. Other witnesses saw the 2nd Oswald it's in "JFK & the Unspeakable" by Jim Douglass. Tippit, Westbrook & Croy were in on it. It all makes sense & ties together. Any case the grassy knoll shooter was not Charles Harrelsen he later denied it & forget James Files he's not credible. Tippit shot JFK & the 2nd Oswald shot Tippit....now case closed.